Back in October last year, we found out the New York Videogame Critics Circle would honour Nintendo of America's former president Reggie Fils-Aimé at the 9th annual New York Game Awards Ceremony. He'll be receiving the Andrew Yoon Legend Award, confirming his 'legend' status.

Now, the games up for nomination have been revealed. The ceremony itself takes place at the SVA Theatre in New York City on 21st January. The Nintendo highlight is Luigi's Mansion 3 being nominated for best game of the year. It's up against titles such as The Outer Worlds, The Game Awards 2019 winner Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, Hideo Kojima's Death Stranding and the indie hit, Disco Elysium.

There are a total of four Nintendo titles up for nomination in the kids category. These games include Tetris 99, Super Mario Maker 2, Pokémon Sword and Shield and Luigi's Mansion 3. In the best-augmented reality and virtual reality category, the Labo VR kit is representing the Switch. On the indie front, Untitled Goose Game is in with a chance to win the best indie game award and Pokémon Sword and Shield has also received a nomination for best music.

When he’s not paying off a loan to Tom Nook, Liam likes to report on the latest Nintendo news and admire his library of video games. His favourite Nintendo character used to be a guitar-playing dog, but nowadays he prefers to hang out with Judd the cat.

LM3 is not a bad game by any stretch, but I felt it suffered from some very frustrating level design on the later levels, especially the sewer level. Certainly doesn’t get my vote for game of the year.

Glad, I‘m not the only one not liking the controls. They just felt a lot more tight in the first entry.Besides, I really missed using fire, water and ice for some puzzles and ghosts.I really loved the presentation of the game, but for a new entry they should look at what made the first one so good.

It finally is a full 30 hour adventure, and not a supershort and easy 5 hour beat-on-first-day game like LM1 or a linear one like LM2.

With Luigi's Mansion 3, the ghostbusting series is on a new level of quality and content. It's finally coming close to other huge Nintendo characters series, and we'll see that reflected in its sales and the praise it will get by the fans now and in the coming years.

And most of us haven't even checked out the multiplayer because we're still strying to 100% complete the main story, and now it's getting a multiplayer DLC pack on top of it.

Personally, I couldn't be happier with Luigi's Mansion 3 so far. I have yet to beat it, but I've found it to be the most enjoyable original Switch game since Breath of the Wild. I can understand why it wouldn't be to everyone's tastes, but for me, it's just about perfect.

@MrDisappointed To be honest, Breath of the Wild isn't an original Switch game because Nintendo admitted that they delayed the original version (Wii U) one year so it launched along the Switch (port) version.

I liked the original Luigi's Mansion and the sequel. The sequel has more content but the first one is more immersive and tight, shorter but better. I haven't played 3 yet because I'm waiting for a sale, I think that I'll like it but reading you guys I would have preferred if Next Level Games had used the original concept expanded.

I mean it's great that it was nominated, but without the invert Y axis option (you know, the correct way to play), it's simply broken. $60 purchase my family hasn't been able to play because it's physically unplayable.